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On March 9, two graduate students flew to Chile to begin installing 100 QCN sensors in the region affected by the recent M8.8 earthquake. We hope to record many of the aftershocks that are still occurring in the area.

Regional Arrays & Free Sensors

The Quake-Catcher Network

The Quake-Catcher Network is a collaborative initiative for developing the world’s largest, low-cost strong-motion seismic network by utilizing sensors in and attached to internet-connected computers. With your help, the Quake-Catcher Network can provide better understanding of earthquakes, give early warning to schools, emergency response systems, and others. The Quake-Catcher Network also provides educational software designed to help teach about earthquakes and earthquake hazards.

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A small and low maintenance motion sensor is installed along with the free QCN software.more info →

In the framework of a European Project named ENVRIplus, the EMSC is calling for new participants. Volunteers will not only contribute data, but will help to better understand the earthquake phenomenon. Finally, by better understanding the earthquakes and their effects, participants will improve their earthquake …

The EMSC has deployed a QCN server for the Euro-Med region to initiate, promote and coordinate QCN deployments in the region. Our strategy is to perform dense deployments in urban-seismically active areas. There are currently several deployments in Greece (in Patras and in Thessaloniki) and …

If you are interested in the tiny and inexpensive (US $35) Raspberry Pi computer you may be interested to know that you can run QCN and BOINC on it using our Debian “Wheezy” Linux distribution image, or try it with our BOINC compiled for the …

Here is something of interest to electronics hobbyists: QCN Participant Jonathan Thomson has hacked together a way to use the Nintendo Wii Nunchuk controller as a QCN accelerometer. His work is documented at his blog

On Tuesday at 5:33AM, QCN detected a magnitude 4 earthquake near Berkeley, California within seconds of the earthquake origin. The event was detected 5-7 seconds before the strong shear waves reached Stanford University, where the QCN servers are located.

Jesse and I (Angie) are here in Taipei, Taiwan at the Asia@home workshop at the 2012 International Symposium on Grids and Clouds (http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2012/asiaathome.html). It’s been fascinating to hear all about QCN in Taiwan and all the work the teams here have been doing in such …

Watch this video and see a M5.2 earthquake send seismic waves across Christchurch, New Zealand on October 4, 2010. The circles show the location of seismic stations that recorded the event, including 118 QCN sensors and 29 GeoNet stations. The colors denote the intensity of …